President Obama, Wall Street Financiers, Corporate CEOs And Members Of Congress Meet Together To Plan Strategy To Sell And Pass Free-Trade Agreements
Richard A. McCormack December 17, 2014
The country's top executives from Wall Street and corporate America are working directly with President Obama and members of his cabinet and appointees on passing a free-trade agenda that is unpopular among the president's natural constituents of democrats, labor unions, environmental and consumer groups and the American public as a whole.
Obama, his staff and members of Congress met directly with CEOs of major multinational corporations in Washington, D.C., on December 11 to discuss the "ground game" -- as his aides described it -- needed to persuade Americans on the benefits of free trade and to lobby Congress on passage of Trade Promotion Authority [TPA] and the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] next year...
...Obama gave up on representing the interests of American workers early on, Scott argues, when University of Chicago economist and 2008 Obama campaign advisor Austan Goolsbee was "secretly" telling the Canadian embassy that Obama's statement about renegotiating NAFTA was meant to dupe working-class voters in the Midwestern states to vote for him. After being elected, Obama named Robert Rubin of Citigroup and architect of President Clinton's trade policy in the 1990s as head of his team of economic advisors. Joining Rubin was Jason Furman, now Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and another former Clintonite. Furman had just written a paper about how Walmart's import model based on outsourcing production was beneficial to lower-class Americans, saving them thousands of dollars a year in cheap goods...
...When looking at the overall trade numbers, Scott notes that imports of goods to the United States were $2.3 trillion in 2013, and exports were $1.6 trillion. This massive and persistent imbalance has led to the direct loss of millions of American jobs, "but the beneficiaries of those imports make a lot of money and they speak loud with large wallets and they have a lot of influence in Washington," said Scott. "Obama has sold out to the highest bidder to keep his party in power and that means cow-towing to Wall Street because that is where all of the power is in this country."..
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/2014/President-And-CEOs-Meet%20To-Pass-TPA-And-TPP-1217141.html
"The Ground Game" LOL
Soon, "Candidates" will begin the process of lying to the dumbed down, barely aware "citizens" for 2 years. It's painful to watch. But if people don't do anything about it maybe they deserve what they get. The latest giveaway RE: Derivatives should be a clue.
TPP is a DONE DEAL. Get used to it.
And what of a nation that trades sovereignty for cheap labor? Does anyone think this will go over well with future generations?
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